Screen is black at login screen if display driver is enabled

Posted by Amir Rachum on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Amir Rachum
Published on 2012-03-08T17:40:50Z Indexed on 2012/03/18 18:04 UTC
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I have a Lenovo x200 and recently its screen didn't work, so I took it to a repair lab. The guy told me they replaced the screen inverter. I powered up the laptop and the ThinkPad logo was shown, so I was happy. When I got home the computer would boot up, then instead of the logon screen, I got a black screen. Went to safe mode, disabled the display adapters, reset the computer, and I got a clean boot. Then I tried to reinstall the drivers, and it just led to the same condition. My video card is (from device manager): Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family.

Now my laptop works as I'm working with display drivers disabled, but without display drivers I can't watch movies, etc. Any solution to this problem?

Edit: I plugged in an external monitor and it works on it with display drivers enabled. However, it does not find the laptop monitor.

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